Missing Ol Johnny Cash
By Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
Written By Merle Haggard
CD: Django and Jimmie (2015)
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
6/13/15
This song has a lot of key changes in it, I am doing this to the open tuning so there are barre chords in it
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Now Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two seemed to know just what to do
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Invented the sound that hooked you and me, added one and made Tennessee Three
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The man in black was long and lean, hit the Billboard charts with a Teenage Queen
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Had a television show, the best we'd seen, that chick-a-boom rock really made a splash
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Missing ol' Johnny Cash
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Now Johnny Cash was a friend of mine Knew him well for a mighty long time
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Shared the stage for many a show, broke my heart to see him go
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Cash had the fire of a thousand men, lovin life was his greatest sin
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Treated his fans like the next of kin, rappin a bit, talkin trash
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Missing ol' Johnny Cash
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Well now Johnny Cash wore black attire and he fell into that Ring of Fire
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He came up swinging like a Boy Named Sue and he married June Carter and he fired stu
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He wrote his songs from deep within And he hit the stage with a crooked grin
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He and I were both Highwaymen And that record became a smash
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Well I'm missing ol' Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash never walked no line, Johnny Cash never did no time, but
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When he sang a Folsom Prison Blues, you knew good and well he'd paid his dues
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True, he always dressed in black but he loved folks and they loved him back
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Carried his pills in a brown paper sack, well I don't care if they found his stash
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I'm missin' old Johnny Cash
Recitation:
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Now is it really true that him and Roy Nichols, Rose Maddox, some people roasted hot dogs in the back of a limousine with ice cream sticks?
I don't know, they said they set the curtains on fire in a English hotel room just to warm their hands. Well. Willie, do you know anything about Cash
Well yeah, I know a lot of things about Cash. I'm not sure I should talk about it, but I checked with John, asked him if it's OK, he said he didn't give a s**t
One time he took a casket up to his hotel room and got into it and called room service. I thought that was pretty funny
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Now Cash had the fire of a thousand men
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Lovin life was his greatest sin
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Treated his fans like the next of kin
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Rappin a bit, talkin trash
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Missing ol' Johnny Cash
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